The social media platform this week decided that the tracker's activity is a violation of its policy and that it will no longer be able to share findings with the public.
Christopher Bouzy founded a platform that tracks the spread of misinformation on the internet. People should be able to engage in healthy online discourse without inauthentic accounts, toxic troll, foreign countries, and organized groups, according to its stated goal.
The tool had two weeks to comply or it would have its access revoked. One platform can access another's internal information with an application programming interface.
"It's odd," he said. It came out of the blue.
He said he's maintained a good relationship with the social media site. The platform wants to work with Bot Sentinel on launches. Emails and messages from the company were seen by Insider.
According to the violation email Bouzy received, there is a problem with the tracking and logging of suspended accounts. The platform has seen and even praised the work that Bot Sentinel has been doing for a long time. Insider saw that the company didn't say anything about the change in its policy. A person could not be reached for comment.
A core part of what we do is the suspended and deactivated accounts feature. It's not a simple thing for them to say we have to rip that out.
The lawsuit against Musk may have something to do with the sudden change in the company's name. "Bots" is a key issue in the case, according to Musk. He says he has the right to back out of the deal because the platform hosts far more bot than it claims. Musk is trying to get more private information from the company in order to prove that it was dishonest about the extent of its bot problem, which could get him out of the acquisition deal.
Dozens or even hundreds of such accounts operate at a time from a single source looking to promote scam or fake information. Bot accounts are included in the tracking of suspended and inactive accounts.
The man who admits he is no fan of Musk thinks that the bot claims are probably incorrect. He said publicly in May that he thought the platform was likely to be 12% to 15% bots at any given time. The majority of those accounts are not legitimate.
There are many more accounts that have been classified as inauthentic, like the ones that have not been taken down.
When we do a report like that, it's usually taken action by the social networking site. They did not. They're trying to make it appear that they don't have a problem.
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